The EVGA Z390 DARK was recently used by Finland Overclocker, Juhani Luumi AKA LUUMI to set a brand new CINEBENCH 8-Core CPU World Record. Armed with an Intel Core i9-9900K, and EVGA Z390 DARK Motherboard and Liquid Nitrogen Cooling, LUUMI was able to clock his CPU to nearly 7GHz and achieve a score of 3142 cb. A new CINEBENCH 8-Core CPU World Record!
One company that sort of hides under the radar when we have a new chipset launch is EVGA. We all know EVGA for their graphics cards, but their motherboards are less known. One thing I've liked about EVGA is how they haven't conformed like everyone else and overloaded their motherboards with RGBs and things that just aren't needed. With the Z390 launch EVGA's first motherboard is the Z390 FTW, which is will eventually sit in the middle of their Z390 product stack once other boards are launched. This board looks quite similar to the Z370 FTW board, but does have a few changes. We will be combining this board with our Core i9-9900K to see what it can do! Read on to find out!
EVGA Z390 boards are designed for the purpose of everyday tasks, exceptional performance, hardcore gaming, and, of course, overclocking.
When NVIDIA announced their GeForce RTX Series graphics cards EVGA did announce a few cards, but we had to wait a little bit for their Hydro Copper, Hybrid, and Blower cards. First up we have the Hydro Copper series, which is made up of two models, the Hydro Copper FTW3 and Hydro Copper XC.
This year at Computex EVGA was showing off their brand new X299 Micro 2 motherboard, which of course is the successor to the X299 Micro EVGA initially announced with the X299 chipset.
EVGA has just introduced two new color variants of their GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 Elite Gaming graphics card. The new models include the Green (model: 11G-P4-6693-K4), and blue (11G-P4-6693-K3). With these models the aluminum frame cooler shroud has been painted with anodized paint.
EVGA has just introduced their latest all-in-one, closed-loop CPU cooler, the CLC 120 CL11 (model: 400-HY-CL11-V1). This cooler features a new pump-block design that looks very different from the rounded-square pump-block that EVGA made use of on their original CLC coolers. According to EVGA it offers improved coolant flow-rate, and higher surface-area for heat dissipation, although it lacks RGB lighting.
It must have been quite embarrassing to Colorful when it was discovered yesterday that they basically copied EVGA's About page word for word. Once word got out about this there was some pretty bad press about the company. Colorful is responding saying that they have updated their "About" page and puts the blame for the older page on a outsourced web-design company that "temporarily put the wrong information."
There are some things in the PC industry that just makes us laugh and this is one of them. If you head on over to EVGA's About page and then check out Colorful's About page you might notice they are literally the same! It looks like someone at Colorful was tasked with writing the About page and must have got lazy
In this episode of our weekly tech podcast we talk about our review of the EVGA X299 Micro Motherboard and the HyperX Cloud Alpha headset as well as some interesting news about Samsung making a crypto-mining ASIC, Paragon shutting down and more!
